A transit collage (and now with animation!)

[StephenM]

Hi all,

Here's a little collage of some of my images, including a series around first and second contact. After this I headed into my kid's school with my telescope (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=91886) and only managed to occasional shot (but had lots of fun sharing it with the kids!).

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Shiraz]

very neat presentation Stephen - a fine record of an amazing event. regards Ray

[Derek Klepp]

I like that an interesting effect

[hotspur]

Great work Stephen,this is great-the best PPing and presentation I've seen,I really like the top set the most,what software do you use to do all that?although I suspect its more the clever skills you have in PPing.:thumbsup:

[AstralTraveller]

+1 :thumbsup:

[Matt Wastell]

Nice collection! A great record!

[StephenM]

Thank very much Ray, Derek, Chris, David and Matt! Much appreciated.

I used GIMP to put the collage together, after first processing the frames in LR3.

I've just put together a little animation covering the first 30 minutes of the transit using GIMP as well.

The 0.9 meg file can be found here (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7165853037_36122eda2e_o.gif).

Cheers,
Stephen

[StephenM]

And here's a final animation which spans the entire transit! There's a few big gaps (where I was showing the school kids the transit through my scope), but I'm pleased to have captured enough images to put this together. :)

The 1.3 mg file is here (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7167933525_4735acdac3_o.gif). Hope you like it.

Cheers,
Stephen